The Interpretation of Murder (Paperback) by by Jed Rubenfeld (Author)

ISBN-10: 0312427050


Synopsis
A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. Think SHADOW OF THE WIND meets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER is an inventive "tour de force" inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protege and rival Carl Jung. When a wealthy young debutante is discovered bound, whipped and strangled in a luxurious apartment overlooking the city, and another society beauty narrowly escapes the same fate, the mayor of New York calls upon Freud to use his revolutionary new ideas to help the surviving victim recover her memory of the attack, and solve the crime. But nothing about the attacks - or about the surviving victim, Nora - is quite as it seems. And there are those in very high places determined to stop the truth coming out, and Freud's startling theories taking root on American soil.

From the Publisher
The Interpretation of Murder is an intricately plotted literary thriller
based on true events - the story of Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to New York.
Around this kernel of fact, Jed Rubenfeld has spun a spectacularly
entertaining fiction centred upon murder. As fiendishly ingenious a
thriller as you could hope to read, The Interpretation of Murder cuts to
the heart of what it is that makes Freud's ideas so fascinating and hugely
engaging. It's also the ultimate New York story: the construction of the
skyscrapers, glittering high society salons, Chinatown opium dens, brothels
and asylums, all have their part to play in his dazzling vision of
Manhattan. A compelling tour through the dark places of a city, and of the
human mind, The Interpretation of Murder is a storytelling triumph, and
marks the debut of a major new talent.


About the Author

Jed Rubenfeld studied Philosophy and Psychology at Princeton, Law at Harvard, and acting at the Juilliard School of Drama. A chaired professor of constitutional and criminal law at Yale, he has been described as 'the most elegant legal writer of his generation'.